Quote Originally Posted by Halivel View Post
I sometimes wonder how many of those who left were players from the period of time when Asmon brought in a huge number of new players along with him. If I recall correctly, that's when the Shadowbringers jump-up happened, and realistically speaking ShB and early EW were capable of satisfying a very wide range of players, while the reset of the game - not necessarily.

It absolutely wouldn't explain the number of active players going down in almost half from what it was in 6.0, but I can fairly easily see some players facing FF14's more "standard" antics and going "nope, thanks, I'm out".

But in order to answer that question one would have to know how many of those players stayed through ShB-EW in the first place, and we probably don't have statistics for that?
I do think a good chunk of those players returned to WoW because Blizzard was able to get it together and made an expansion that the players are overall happy with after years of terribad. An unknown number were in FFXIV only because the number one MMO was in the crapper and they wanted to play SOMETHING. And, credit to Blizzard, they are doing their damndest to keep those players that came back.



It's sad but I don't see SE giving FFXIV the same boost in resources, but it may be too early to make that call? Or not. I still like FFXIV even if the updates are slowing way down, but I'll just play it less and take longer breaks. It can't last forever.

There is that theory going that SE might be starting development on a brand new MMO after DT tanked and the Dragon Quest MMO is also showing slowdown. FFXVII is supposedly in preproduction, so it or FFXVIII might be the next MMO.

I dunno. I think I'm just not ready to just give up.